‘Minority’ UPA govt. must quit, says Trinamool

The Trinamool Congress is “very clear” that it wants the “minority” Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government to “resign immediately” as it has lost both its “mandate” and the “moral right to continue for a single moment.”

The Trinamool’s all-India general secretary Mukul Roy admitted that the government could hold on to power “using the numbers game” in Parliament but it remained a minority government in the wake of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) pulling out of the ruling coalition.

Trinamool chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been talking of early Lok Sabha elections, going to the extent of saying at an event earlier this month that the polls were just “two to three months away.”

The Trinamool, second-largest constituent in the UPA, had withdrawn its support to the UPA government in September 2012.

Roy decries PM’s confidence

Following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s remarks expressing confidence that the UPA government would last its full five-year term, Mr. Roy observed that his party had been “clearly stating” for the past six months that the present government “had no moral right to continue for a single moment [longer].”

“This time we are very clear that we want the [UPA] government to resign immediately,” Mr. Roy asserted.

Speculation scotched

His comments set to rest speculation within certain quarters that the Trinamool might be looking at reviewing its relations with the UPA government — fuelled by an assurance from its leaders that the party stood by the Centre on matters relating to the country’s external relations.

This speculation arose after it voiced support for the Centre in the wake of the DMK’s decision to pull out of the UPA government on the issue of atrocities against Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Recalling that the Trinamool had withdrawn support to the UPA government because of the latter’s “anti-people policies” — ranging from the decontrol of petrol and diesel prices, introduction of foreign direct investment in the retail sector and rise in prices of fertilizers — Mr. Roy said that it was “crystal clear that [the UPA] government has no mandate.”

The people of West Bengal with lot of hope, hype & hoopla elected TMC Govt. as 34 years of Left rule could not forward much development of the state. We all know unemployment is high because of lack of industrial development and too much of trade unionism. Unfortunately from the day of getting power, TMC leaders have taken conflicting attitude with the Centre depicting their immaturity. With my travel experience of West Bengal I have observed after Dr. B.C. Roy, West Bengal could not produce a good leader who can give a direction for the development of the state.

from:
Dr. Shankar

Posted on: Mar 30, 2013 at 14:08 IST

Now Chidamparam can meet Mamtha with packackage of schemes for WB.

from:
Cherian Mani

Posted on: Mar 30, 2013 at 08:07 IST

The Trinamool party is satisfied that the Central Government has lost moral right and the mandate and is demanding immediate resignation.

Let the Trinamool party muster sufficient friends among the MPs and bring a no-confidence motion. Whether the Government is stable or not is a different issue. We should hear some explanation at least from the Government on so many scandals, corruption charges that have surfaced during the last 3 years.

That, the Congress has squandered huge good will is not in doubt. Whether the opposition has conducted itself in any credible manner during the last 3 years is the question now.

from:
raghavan

Posted on: Mar 30, 2013 at 07:51 IST

The prospect totally regional chauvinistic leaders with no national outlook, ganging-up to form a 'third front' to rule the nation is truly scary. Will Modi or Advani or Rahul or Dr.Swamy take on such a 'kichedi front' and come out thumps up? 2014 will prove crucial for the unity of our nation.

from:
Ramani P

Posted on: Mar 29, 2013 at 20:59 IST

The right course of action for Trinamool Congress, and even for DMK, is to insist in confidence vote by moving a ‘No confidence’ motion in the Lok Sabha in its next session. Then the UPA government’s real strength will be tested. Further, we will then know which political party wants early elections. Right now even Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav is unsure of his next move. Ms Mamata Banerjee is still to decide whether or not to go with National Democratic alliance. It appears that elections will be held only in 2014, as BJP too is reluctant to move a no confidence motion as it has just fared very poorly in recently held Karnataka’s municipal council elections.

from:
Narendra M Apte

Posted on: Mar 29, 2013 at 19:39 IST

Does Mamta news merit headlinea? A leader with just 19 MPs was obstructing every positive move and had the audacity to name a candidate for President ignoring views of the majority party- how things turned against her is known to everyone - It was again the media which gave so much importance and coverage that these people lost their senses. its again regrettable that news on Mamta and Mulayam are being splashed by media, and the stock of the nation is going down. Similarly action of DMK is also towards publicity and endangering the nation. They could have withdrawn from cabinet and said they would support each move based on the merits of the case - instead they gave a letter withdrawing support. It was primarily Raja's action that brought UPA to such low levels. The PM should have dismissed Raja as soon as he changed the dates for submission of bids by telecom companies -Probably the nation would have been better off without all these mischievousness elements.